NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 1060: Starting at $249, Available July 19th
by Ryan Smith on July 7, 2016 9:00 AM ESTNVIIDA Ansel, Simultaneous Multi-Projection, & VR Funhouse Status Updates
Along with today’s news about the GeForce GTX 1060 launch, NVIDIA is also offering updated news on a few of their technologies and related software projects.
We’ll start with Ansel, NVIDIA’s 360 degree high-resolution screenshot composition and capture technology. After initially announcing it alongside the GTX 1080 as part of their Pascal technology briefing, the company is announcing that it will finally be shipping in select games this month, with the first of those shipping today. The first two games to get Ansel-enabled will be DICE’s Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst and CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3. Ansel support for Mirror’s Edge is launching today (or as NVIDIA’s press release puts it, “immediate availability”), meanwhile The Witcher 3 will get support added later this month.
As the tech requires vendors to integrate it into games and game engines on a case-by-case basis, this is a gradual rollout, but one NVIDIA is hoping to accelerate over time. The company has already lined up a half dozen additional games that will support the technology, including Unreal Tournament and No Man’s Sky, but they are not announcing an availability date at this time.
Meanwhile, in a more general status update on their Simultaneous Multi-Projection technology, NVIDIA is announcing that they have lined up both Unity and Epic Games to add support for the technology to their respective Unity and Unreal Engine 4 game engines. To that end the company is also confirming that over 30 games are now in development to implement the technology, including Epic’s Unreal Tournament.
Besides being a marquee feature of the Pascal architecture, simultaneous multi-projection is seen by NVIDIA as a key element in establishing a lead in the VR market. Though the full benefits of the technology remain to be seen, any potential performance advantage would be in their favor, and we should expect to see it significantly promoted alongside the GTX 1060, which will be NVIIDA’s entry-level VR card. Of course as developers need to implement the technology first, which is why for NVIDIA is it so important to get developers on-board and to make sure potential customers are aware.
Finally, speaking of VR, NVIDIA is also announcing that their big tech demo for Pascal, VR Funhouse, will be shipping this month. Unveiled alongside Ansel and SMP at the Pascal launch, VR Funhouse is built on Unreal Engine 4 and is meant to serve as a testbed for NVIDIA’s latest GameWorks/VRWorks technologies, including SMP and VRWorks Audio. The tech demo will be released on Steam later this month and will support the GTX 1060 and above. Though Pascal owners will want to take note that as this is a VR demo, it will require a VR headset – specifically, the HTC Vive – in order to use it.
Meanwhile NVIDIA has also confirmed that the source code to VR Funhouse will be opened up to developers. Though the primarily goal here is to allow developers to add additional attractions/modules to the tech demo, more broadly speaking it’s another means to help encourage developer adoption of GameWorks/VRWorks, giving developers a starting point for using the various technologies in NVIDIA’s libraries.
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Murloc - Friday, July 8, 2016 - link
who cares about a few weeks?brucek2 - Friday, July 8, 2016 - link
Or a few dollars? Or a few % of performance? Hey why bother reporting anything accurately?The six week delay in ready availability of the 1080, as measured against the say 52 weeks until it is replaced by next year's model, is already more than 10% of that lifespan. This site spends lot of time and effort on smaller differences than that.
ruthan - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
We really need 3rd player on GPU market, Nvidia is so supreme, that could milk us to death. I will not buy worse AMD product only to keep AMD live 1 day more.Unless Zen would be miracle, they are done. They are between rock and hardplace - Intel on side and Nvidia on second..
vladx - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
Why would anyone enter a ongoing diminishing market? In 8-10 years all dGPU will be gone except a few high-end and enthusiast cards, everything below will be replaced by integrated cards that keep improving by leaps and bounds.samer1970 - Friday, July 8, 2016 - link
AMD are done ? lol wake up , The consoles market lone will keep them going ... They are making Nintendo , Playstation , Xbox hardware for 10 years to comeMichael Bay - Friday, July 8, 2016 - link
AMD has nothing to do with "console market". They got a one-time deal with shared or outright transferred IP, for which they got a one-time payment, period.Should AMD completely disintegrate tomorrow, consoles will keep shipping.
ACE76 - Monday, July 11, 2016 - link
Yeah AMD has been "done" for the last 6-7 years...yet they are still here somehow...SMHvladx - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
It's clear now that the 3GB Pascal card will be the GTX 1050. Hopefully that means it will be half the price of GTX 1060 as well.TallestJon96 - Thursday, July 7, 2016 - link
I think the 1060 will probably be able to meet the 980, if not exceed it just a little. If you compare the 1070's teraflops and memory bandwidth to the titan X, you can get any idea about the pascal vs Maxwell efficiency difference:Titan X:
6.144 Teraflops:
336.5 gb/s
88% performance of 1070 at 1080p:
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce...
GTX 1070:
5.78 teraflops
256 gb/s
100% performance:
pascal is ~20% more efficient per teraflop
pascal is ~50% more efficient per gb/s
Now for the 1060 vs 980:
980:
4.61 teraflops
224 gb/s
1060:
3.97 tera flops
192 gb/s:
gtx 1060 "Translated" to maxwell terms:
4.764 teraflops
288 gb/s
Put another way, the 1070 has 94% of the treaflops the titan x has, and 76% of the memory bandwidth, but the 1070 wins by just over 10%. The 1060 has 86% of the teraflops of the titan x, and 85% of the memory bandwidth, and it should beat the 980 by maybe 5%.
And 6gb memory is certainly nice. Beats the 980, and ties the 980 ti, which I remind you was a $600 card 2 months ago.
Really a reat card if nothing goes wrong and if it actually sells for $250. Really good for 1080p60, maybe overkill in a few games, almost enough for 1440p.
webdoctors - Friday, July 8, 2016 - link
Great card, doesn't make sense to buy any card in the 200-300 price range until benchmarks are released next week and its up for sale. I need to replace my GTX660 and this seems perfect.Depending on the State taxes, its probably the same to buy an AMD card on Amazon and/or a NVIDIA card from NewEgg, as for me there's Amazon sales tax but no Newegg sales tax.